Well it's been a couple of days sinse I posted my question about embedding a video player on a website, with no responses, so I will ask a different question.

If I do find a way to show my (hour long) .wmv formatted video on my website, will it be able to be viewed on a Mac?

I am a novice to embedding videos, so I guess that is a good starting point.
I appreciate any help.

05-10-2013, 09:30 AM

annaharris

I prefer to choose .AVI or .MP4 video format for website.

05-10-2013, 09:42 PM

felgall

For video to play native in all browsers that support it you will need mp4, webm and ogv formats as there are browsers that only support one of those three. Specify the source tags in that order inside the video tag to provide the best support (plus if you want to make sure of browsers that don't support the video tag then add a flash version in an object tag inside the video tag as well.

05-11-2013, 04:24 PM

Eggweezer

Hello felgall,

Thank you. Here is what I am really trying to accomplish, and just wanted to see if you (or anyone) could suggest how to accomplish this.

What I would really like to be able to do would be to be able to create a Flash swf for a website header.

1) I realize of course that Macs do not display swf's, so I know I obviously will need to convert my swf to a movie of some sort (MP4?).

2) Then.... I need to be able to stream that movie (so it does not have to completely load) before it starts to play.

3) Finally, I would also need it to play without a "play" button (although I imagine the code would allow for autoplay).

Boy, if you or anyone could steer me in a direction, I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

05-11-2013, 10:17 PM

felgall

See http://www.felgall.com/html5u1.htm - at the bottom of the page is example code of how to attach all the different video file formats so that the browser will display the video using whichever one it understands.